- US FDA expands sunscreen options, adds bemotrizinol
Source: United Press International
“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday added bemotrizinol to the list of permitted active ingredients in over-the-counter sunscreens, the first addition to that list since the 1990s. … The FDA said the ingredient has low levels of absorption through the skin and into the body and is generally recognized as safe and effective for adults and children 6 months old and older. The American Chemical Society said that BEMT blocks ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B light rays and was first used in sunscreens in the European Union in 2000, with Canada, Australia and some countries in Asia following suit soon after.” (06/09/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/06/09/fda-adds-bemotrizinol-to-sunscreen-list/5271781042817/
- Judge bars Alabama nitrogen gas execution, says method is unconstitutionally cruel
Source: Seattle Times
“A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring it violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. U.S. District Judge Emily Marks issued the ruling hours after an appeals court reversed her initial finding that the method was constitutional. Marks permanently enjoined the state from executing Jeffrey Lee, 49, by nitrogen gas. He was scheduled to be executed Thursday. The decision, for now, blocks the use of the controversial new execution method that the state has championed since 2024, but the issue will likely end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.” (06/09/26)
- CA: Becerra, Hilton to face off in gubernatorial race
Source: US News & World Report
“The race for California governor this fall will be a battle between a Democrat promising to cement the state’s status as a stronghold of liberal policies and a Republican pledging to dramatically reverse course in the nation’s most populous state. Republican Steve Hilton, a former Fox News commentator backed by President Donald Trump, has won enough votes to advance to the general election, The Associated Press determined Tuesday. He’ll face Democrat Xavier Becerra, a former state attorney general and health secretary under President Joe Biden.” (06/09/26)
- US, Iranian regimes escalate strikes
Source: NBC News
“The United States launched new attacks against Iran after President Donald Trump said Tehran shot down an American military helicopter patrolling the Strait of Hormuz. A U.S. official said the Apache was hit by an Iranian drone. Tehran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said it hit back with strikes on U.S. targets across the Middle East, including bases in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait. Iran’s top diplomat said foreign forces near its territory ‘are at constant risk’ but did not mention any role in downing the helicopter.” (06/10/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/live-blog/us-attacks-iran-rcna349305
- Platner wins Maine US Senate primary; Mace concedes in South Carolina gubernatorial race
Source: USA Today
“Results are rolling in for closely watched primary contests in Maine and South Carolina on Tuesday, June 9. In the day’s most high-profile race, Maine Democrat Graham Platner − for whom embarrassing revelations about his personal life are threaten to upend his bid to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins − has won the Democratic Senate primary. Platner bested Gov. Janet Mills, who suspended her Senate campaign on April 30, and will face Incumbent Sen. Susan Collins who ran for the Republican nomination unopposed. … South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace’s bid for governor failed after she lost President Donald Trump’s favor by joining House Democrats to compel the release of Justice Department files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The president endorsed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette. Evette will head to a runoff with Alan Wilson, and Mace conceded the race.” (06/09/26)
- Russia: Moscow car bomb reportedly kills general
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A car bomb in the Moscow region killed a general in charge of heavy ammunition supplies for the Russian army, reports said. The car exploded in Balashikha, killing its driver. He was named in reports as Damir Davydov, head of the Russian defence ministry’s missile and artillery wing. A second car bomb was discovered and blown up by authorities in south-west Moscow, reports said. Throughout the war several audacious assassinations have taken place of senior figures involved in Moscow’s war effort, with Ukrainian security services either claiming responsibility or being blamed by Russian authorities.” (06/10/26)
- Libertarian Party of New Hampshire to Appeal National Committee Disaffiliation
Source: Independent Political Report
“The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire is taking first steps to appeal its disaffiliation by the Libertarian National Committee, authorizing its state chair to petition the national party’s Judicial Committee on its behalf. In a resolution adopted June 4 and later shared to the LNC’s public Business List, the New Hampshire party’s Executive Committee repudiated a prior endorsement of Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, reaffirmed its compliance with the Libertarian Party’s bylaws and Statement of Principles, and authorized Chair Jeremy Kauffman to formally petition the Judicial Committee on behalf of the disaffiliated state party. … Under Libertarian Party bylaws, the Judicial Committee will have 20 to 40 days after receiving the appeal from Kauffman to hold a hearing.” (06/08/26)
- Bolivia: Protesters, police clash in Bolivia after president signs law enabling a harsher crackdown
Source: ABC News
“Protesters in Bolivia demanding the resignation of conservative President Rodrigo Paz hurled firecrackers, stones and sticks at police who responded with tear gas on Monday, leading to dozens of arrests as road blockades continue to paralyze the Andean nation. The renewed clashes in the central city of Cochabamba erupted after President Paz signed a measure that could pave the way for a hard-line government crackdown on the demonstrations that have roiled Bolivia over the past five weeks, disrupting transportation and causing shortages of food, fuel and medical supplies. Bolivia’s national workers’ union, peasant farmers and Indigenous groups from the highlands — outraged over Paz’s scrapping of fuel subsidies and frustrated with his failure in the last seven months to resolve Bolivia’s persistent economic problems — have set up 90 blockades on key routes nationwide, effectively isolating major cities, especially La Paz, the seat of government and neighboring El Alto.” (06/09/26)
- TX: Paxton’s former lawyer endorses Talarico in US Senate race
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A lawyer who represented Ken Paxton, Texas’s attorney general, for nearly a decade over accusations of corruption and securities fraud is supporting Democrat James Talarico – and not his former client – in one of the biggest US Senate races. Talarico on Monday drew attention to his campaign winning the endorsement of Houston attorney Dan Cogdell, who was part of Paxton’s defense team during the Republican’s historic impeachment trial in 2023 that ended in acquittal. The legal troubles that shadowed Paxton in public office in Texas are a central attack line of Talarico’s campaign, though in his endorsement, Cogdell didn’t cite concerns about his client’s past. Cogdell said he didn’t dislike Paxton as a person and felt that Texas lawmakers were right to eventually acquit the attorney general. But as a politician, Cogdell said, Paxton is too focused on appeasing Donald Trump.” (06/09/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/09/ken-paxton-lawyer-endorses-james-talarico
- The law faculty who self-censor the least are not the ones you think
Source: Expression
by Nate Honeycutt“When discussions turn to free expression in higher education, a common assumption is that those with the lowest amount of job security feel the least free to speak. Junior faculty, adjunct instructors, and others without tenure are often presumed to be the most cautious, while senior professors are presumed to enjoy and exercise greater freedom to study, teach, or debate whatever they want without fear of reprisal. And survey data does support this. For example, among faculty in the academy at large non-tenured faculty are more likely to self-censor than tenured/tenure-track faculty. But results from FIRE’s 2026 survey of nearly 2,000 law faculty suggest the reality may be more complicated.” (06/09/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/the-law-faculty-who-self-censor-the
- What JFK Knew about Diplomacy that Modern Leaders Have Forgotten
Source: Independent Institute
by Abigail R Hall“Kennedy facilitated important changes in U.S.-Soviet relations. Less than two months later, the two nations and Great Britain signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited weapons testing in the atmosphere and in the water. The signatories agreed to work toward ending the arms race and, ultimately, complete disarmament. The treaty didn’t succeed — but that doesn’t mean it didn’t matter. Kennedy’s efforts showed how bitter rivals could nevertheless work toward a common goal. Though he wouldn’t live to see them, future diplomatic efforts enabled even the most ideologically opposed regimes to build institutions that constrained humanity’s worst impulses.” (06/09/26)
- Build homes, don’t seize them, Mayor Mamdani
Source: Washington Post
by Ilya Somin“‘Block by Block,’ Zohran Mamdani’s ‘sweeping blueprint’ to reduce housing prices in New York City, comes with a dangerous promise. ‘When necessary,’ the mayor said on May 26, ‘we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers’ and transfer ownership to ‘responsible stewards.’ The problem: The proposal is an unconstitutional power grab that would exacerbate the city’s housing crisis. … The mayor’s proposal doesn’t just violate the federal and state constitutions, which have nearly identical restrictions on takings. It would also make the city’s shortages worse. Faced with the prospect of potential expropriation, many owners would likely withdraw properties from the market or not list them in the first place.” (06/09/26)
- Anarcho-Tyranny is Killing College Sports
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Tho Bishop“College athletics, particularly in the South, has long been one of the great institutions of this country. While the terminally anti-social may be quick to dismiss popular sports as ‘sportsball’ and the latter half of ‘bread and circuses,’ the reality is that popular sports have long served as an important connection in civil society, creating multi-generational stories of success and defeat, and providing valuable lessons about grit, hard work, and determination. Unfortunately, college sports have been under constant assault from political institutions, serving as a striking example of the devastation that can be wrought by anarcho-tyranny — the state-driven phenomenon of criminalizing the enforcement of basic civic norms while increasingly restricting the liberties of law-abiding citizens.” (06/09/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/anarcho-tyranny-killing-college-sports
- George “Poppy” Bush and the JFK Assassination
Source: JFK Facts
by Larry Hancock & Chad Nagle“Researchers of President Kennedy’s assassination have long been familiar with an FBI memorandum dated Nov. 29, 1963, referring to ‘Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency.’ … the CIA faced a barrage of questions concerning Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush’s history with the Agency. The Republican National Convention, at which Bush (nicknamed ‘Poppy’) would receive his party’s nomination for president, was less than a month away. Having once served as a U.S. congressman and ambassador to the United Nations, Bush had also briefly held the directorship of the CIA. Had the GOP nominee concealed not only a longer professional affiliation with the Agency but a link to the murder of a Democratic predecessor 25 years earlier as well? Now, a witness from the night of Nov. 23, 1963, also mentioned in the FBI memorandum, has contacted the Mary Ferrell Foundation (MFF) to try to lend clarity to the mystery with a signed statement.” (06/09/26)
https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/george-poppy-bush-and-the-jfk-assassination
- Rip Van Trumple Contradicts His Own Ballroom Argument
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp“‘This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House,’ US president Donald Trump claimed the day after an armed would-be assassin attempted to charge through a security barricade at the Washington Hilton. ‘“It cannot be built fast enough!’ US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) agreed: ‘America has a problem. That problem is, it is very difficult to have a bunch of important people in the same place unless it is really, really secure.’ … Trump clearly didn’t believe his own claims concerning presidential security, or he wouldn’t have decided to catch 40 winks in front of thousands of angry basketball fans.” (06/09/26)
- We Should Not “Integrate” Our Military With Any Foreign Nation!
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ron Paul“Not since the notorious 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) provided for indefinite detention of American citizens, has the annual funding bill been as misused as this year. Embedded in the bill is an insult to every American who values our national sovereignty. The NDAA’s Section 224, the ‘United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,’ would ‘integrate’ the Israeli military with our own, fusing technology, production, intelligence-sharing, and more. … It is hard to think of a more ‘America last’ position than handing the keys to the Pentagon (and our intelligence community) to a foreign country.” (06/09/26)
- Reading: The Quietest Way To Disobey
Source: Reason
by Joel Miller“For those of us who like to think literacy is a form of liberation, there’s a troubling counterpoint: Mein Kampf. Adolf Hitler wasn’t interested in people thinking for themselves; he insisted they think like him. Propaganda, he recognized, is an assault on reflection: avoid abstraction, parrot slogans, abandon objectivity, and scapegoat your enemies. In forms like Mein Kampf, books contributed to the poison. But for the German theologian and anti-Nazi conspirator Dietrich Bonhoeffer, they could also serve as an antidote.” (06/09/26)
https://reason.com/2026/06/09/reading-the-quietest-way-to-disobey/
- The Prussian Assembly Line: Praxeological Sovereignty and the Separation of School and State
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ely Valentino Binet Batista“There are two types of human beings in this world: those who wait for someone to tell them what to do, and those who build structures that force the world to move at their rhythm. Modern state-monopolized education is engineered exclusively for the former. The contemporary school system operates as a direct administrative descendant of the nineteenth-century Prussian factory model.” (06/09/26)
- The Historian Who Explained the True Meaning of the Revolution to Americans
Source: The UnPopulist
by Andy Craig“The famed historian Gordon S. Wood died on Sunday, struck by a car in a parking lot at the age of 92. He was his generation’s foremost scholar of the American Revolution and the early Republic, and for decades he pressed a single argument with alacrity. The argument was this: the American Revolution was the most radical event in American history, and the men who made it neither intended nor controlled the radicalism they unleashed.” (06/09/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-historian-who-explained-the-true
- California proves voters get the government they tolerate
Source: Fox News
by Jonathan Turley“This week, the nation watched as California grappled again with the ordinarily straightforward task of counting votes in an election. While large states such as Florida declare election winners within 24 hours, California may take up to two weeks to count all the votes. Even Los Angeles cannot count its votes in the time of large states despite giving the Clerk an annual budget of $336 million and a $448,179 a year salary with the help of 1,100 budgeted positions. In most states, voters would be outraged by the incompetence, waste and inefficiency. However, in the Golden State, voters shrug, as if they can demand no more from their elected officials than subpar performance. Call it the Politics of Low Expectations, and California is the model for the nation.” (06/09/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-california-proves-voters-get-government-tolerate
- A study isn’t “worthless” because it’s incomplete
Source: Expression
by Samuel J Abrams“The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) recently released a study by David Primo measuring faculty viewpoint diversity through campaign-contribution data. The average faculty donor scored only slightly to the right of progressives like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The findings and criticism traveled quickly. John K. Wilson, writing in Inside Higher Ed, pronounced the study ‘worthless’ because most faculty never make campaign contributions, so a sample of donors cannot describe the average professor. On the narrow point he is right: a sample of donors is not a sample of all faculty. ‘Worthless’ is a serious conclusion — a verdict that, applied consistently, would discard nearly every measure we have.” (06/09/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/a-study-isnt-worthless-because-its
- Pink Flame of Liberty, 06/09/26
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“The Proposed LP Judicial Committee Rules, Let’s Talk About Them.” (06/09/26)
- Parallax Views w/ JG Michael, 06/09/26
Source: Parallax Views w/ JG Michael
“Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, U.S.-Israel Military Fusion, Unhinged Propaganda, & More w/ Mouin Rabbani.” (06/09/26)
- Fountainhead Forum, episode 459
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Avens O’Brien on the 2026 Libertarian Party (USA) National Convention.” (06/09/26)
- The Kyle Anzalone Show, 06/09/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Is Trump The Best Israeli President Ever?” (06/09/26)
- Capital Record, episode 303
Source: National Review
“Don’t Blame Bernie for AI State Cronyism.” (06/09/26)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/dont-blame-bernie-for-ai-state-cronyism/
- Brian Wilson Speaks, 06/09/26
Source: Brian Wilson Speaks
“Internationally known authority, Don Williams (Smithsonian Institute, ret.), returns to discuss the provocative question: who constitutes the ‘domestic enemies’ mentioned in the Oath all elected officials, military, and civil servants swear to uphold upon taking office.” (06/09/26)
https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/p/all-enemies-foreign-and-domestic
- Cato Podcast, 06/09/26
Source: Cato Institute
“When the President Sues the Government He Controls.” (06/09/26)
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/when-president-sues-government-he-controls
- The Corbett Report, 06/09/26
Source: The Corbett Report
“Do you know the documented history of decades of illegal Israeli government spying on Washington? Do you know who was involved in the nuclear smuggling ring that stole America’s nuclear secrets to build Israel’s illegal and still undeclared nuclear arsenal? Do you know about Unit 8200 and the inescapable web of cyber spying operations that leads from Tel Aviv to Washington right through Epstein Island? Well, you’re about to! Strap in and get ready.” (06/09/26)